by MBC News | Mar 7, 2013
The Hatchet Lake First Nation has signed a memorandum of understanding with two development companies. This week the band sat down with Artic Construction and the Commonwealth Group about a proposal to complete an all-weather road link from the reserve to Hwy 905. For...
by MBC News | Mar 7, 2013
The chairman of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission says he’s not sure why a national action plan hasn’t been created to address violence against Aboriginal women. David Arnot says Canada’s inability to create such a plan is a national shame. Today the human...
by MBC News | Mar 7, 2013
By the end of the month, a huge wind turbine should start generating electricity just east of Regina. It is a $5 million project on the Cowesses First Nation and it is the first wind turbine project of its kind in North America. What makes the project unique is its...
by MBC News | Mar 7, 2013
An official with SaskPower says there are significant concerns over a proposed hydroelectric dam near the James Smith First Nation. The band has pitched the idea for years. However Grant Ring, the vice-president of business development with SaskPower, says there are...
by MBC News | Mar 7, 2013
Opposition continues to pour in over Conservative MP Rob Clarke’s suggested changes to the northern Saskatchewan riding. In a letter to a parliamentary committee, the Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River MP says proposed boundary changes would result in too many First...
by MBC News | Mar 7, 2013
Liberal and Conservative senators continued to spar in committee in Ottawa on Wednesday night over an act that will make it mandatory for all First Nations bands to post their financial information online. Liberal Senator Lillian Dyck put forward a motion to withhold...
by MBC News | Mar 7, 2013
A new book chronicling elder accounts of the history of the Kawacatoose First Nation was launched Thursday in Saskatoon. Meskanawiyiniwak Volume One and Two is a group of about 25 interviews with elders in the community on their recollections of family, education,...
by MBC News | Mar 7, 2013
A high-speed chase in Western Saskatchewan and parts of Alberta has resulted in a man being put behind bars. Mounties say it was on Monday that they spotted their suspect, who was wanted on 21 outstanding warrants, while he was behind the wheel on the Onion Lake...
by MBC News | Mar 7, 2013
A northern Saskatchewan MP says proposed boundary changes would put too many First Nations people in his constituency. Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River Conservative MP Rob Clarke says in a letter to a parliamentary committee the proposed boundary changes would...
by MBC News | Mar 7, 2013
The chief of the Standing Buffalo First Nation has been named the winner of an annual waste award known as the Teddy. It is given out every year by the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation that singles out an agency or individual for wasting tax dollars. The federation says...
